>>25372138The Holy Roman Empire was as the name suggest and empire, it was specifically not a nation/state.
One of the specific issues of the liberal 1848 revolution in germany was that the austrian emperor was not willing to part from the hungarian territories in the event of the formation of a proper German state.
The end result being Austria-Hungary being seperated from the greater german state after the German-German War (Prussia vs Austria) and the Franco-german war.
And then the victorious powers refused unification between Austria and Germany after WW1 for reason i don't remember
